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Re: Q: How to tag individual files

From
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Jul 13, 2008, 10:20 UTC
Message-ID
<20080713102047.GH32184@machine.or.cz>
In-Reply-To
<20080713053537.GA32746@spearce.org>
  Hi,
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 05:35:37AM +0000, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
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> Poojan Wagh <poojanwagh@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The crash course at: http://git.or.cz/course/svn.html says:
> >
> >> You usually tag commits but if you want, you can tag files (or trees, 
> >> but that's a bit low-level) as well. 
> >
> > I've done a bit of searching, and I can't for the life of me figure out  
> > how to tag an individual file. Help from the group would be much  
> > appreciated. Thanks.
..snip..
> So you can't tag individual files.  The comment is a bit misleading
> and gets far too low-level for an otherwise high-level conversion
> guide.
  I have tried to make this less misleading, thanks for noticing. I kept
the mention, though, because I think people should not be misled to
thinking that only commits are tagged, and then get confused when they
first meet v2.6.11.
-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is
something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone. -- A. Pierce
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  3. Poojan WaghJul 13, 2008
  4. Petr BaudisJul 13, 2008

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